Sources: BBC
Seven people are killed and 31 injured after a truck crashed in Gombe State, Nigeria. 2025-01-2
The oil tanker "Trinity Spirit" catches fire and explodes off the coast of Nigeria. 2022-02-3
Nigerian authorities confirm that the bandits who kidnapped dozens of children from a school in Chikun, Kaduna State, have released 28 of them and that 81 others remain in captivity. This was the tenth mass kidnapping incident since December 2020. 2021-07-25
Boko Haram releases most of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls it had kidnapped in February 2018, and warns against sending them back to school. 2018-03-21
Nigeria’s information and culture minister says the government has recovered $9.1 billion in money and assets stolen from the oil sector. 2016-06-4
The Nigerian Army claims to have rescued more than 800 hostages from Boko Haram while performing a "clearance operation" in the Northeastern part of Nigeria with fighting killing 22 insurgents. 2016-03-25
A long-awaited report released by an African Union investigative team led by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo describes atrocities and the discovery of mass graves in South Sudan, citing government forces and their allies as responsible parties. 2015-10-29
Voters in Nigeria go to the polls for a general election. Gunmen kill at least 15 voters including an opposition house of assembly candidate for Dukku in Gombe. 2015-03-28
At least 13 people are dead and 34 injured after Boko Haram gunmen attack a government college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. 2014-09-17
Nigeria's State Security Service claim to have arrested Abul-Qaqa, a purported spokesman for the radical Islamist Boko Haram group. 2012-02-1